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ALMEDIA — Two weeks ago, Panther Valley made the trip up to Columbia County to take on Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech and left with a lopsided win thanks mainly to big plays, including multiple throws to receivers several inches taller than CMVT’s defensive backs.

Saturday, Nativity made the same trip and left with the same result due to primarily the same reason.

The victory allows Nativity (2-1) to surpass its win total from last year and bounce back from a two-point

point on the road at Jenkintown last week.

“We dropped a heartbreaker last week, so to see them respond this way was good,” Nativity BVM coach Pat Mason said. “You always like to see how kids respond to tough losses and we did well. We made a lot of mistakes and we’re going to keep work on getting better but I’m happy with the win.”

Nativity had six plays of 25 yards or more, which included a pair of scoring plays — a 78-yard kickoff return by Ralph Muldrow and a 78-yard touchdown reception by Muldrow from Walker, who was 6-of-9 passing.

Walker completed his first five passes of the game, including three for 142 yards in the Green Wave’s 28-point second quarter. Four completions went for more than 20 yards.

“We had some kids step up and make some big plays and went to three or four different kids on those plays,” Mason said. “Sincere is a good athlete and is going to be a great quarterback. He’s going to keep getting better each week and we need to be able to throw the ball to win.”

The Green Wave put together its longest drive of the game in terms of time and plays on its first possession of the contest, taking control of the ball with 8:29 left in the first quarter after recovering a CMVT fumble. Nativity took 4:21 to go 70 yards in nine plays, capped by a 1-yard run by Schreffler. He also had a 25-yard run earlier in the drive.

CMVT (0-3) took the lead early in the second quarter on a big play of its own — a 71-yard touchdown pass from Trevor Welsh to John Binder, who got behind the Green Wave secondary and used his speed to run away from defenders after the catch. The Rams then converted the two-point conversion to go up 8-7.

That lead was extremely short-lived, however, as Muldrow returned the ensuing kickoff for a score and Ryan McDonald ran in a two-point conversion to give Nativity a 15-8 lead.

CMVT answered right back with a methodical nine-play drive that took almost five minutes and featured nine running plays, including the capper — an 8-yard score by Sevon King with 5:10 remaining in the half. The Rams missed the PAT, however, and from there, the Green Wave seized the momentum from what was a back-and-forth sequence.

Nativity recovered an attempted onside kick to take possession at its own 47. On the first play from scrimmage, Schreffler ripped off a 49-yard run to the CMVT 4 and then finished it off on the next play to put the Green Wave up 21-14.

The Green Wave forced a punt on CMVT’s next possession and then two plays after taking back the ball, Walker found Muldrow from 78 yards out to put Nativity up 29-14.

A fumble by CMVT on its next drive gave Nativity the ball at its own 26 with just over a minute to play in the half. From that point, Walker hooked up with Michael Bilansky for a 15-yard gain, connected with McDonald for a 49-yarder, and then Schreffler capped the drive with a 10-yard touchdown run.

“You have to give Nativity a lot of credit,” CMVT coach Mark Varner said. “We stopped them on a few plays and then gave up a big run or a big pass, but give them credit. They made those throws and if the ball isn’t right where it’s supposed to be, it’s probably not caught, but we were where we needed to be.”

Neither team was able to score in the second half. Nativity did put together a pair of long drives, including one that lasted over six minutes, to chew up the clock with the big lead.

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